Mestiz’s woven world of flowers, animals, and curious creatures
Mexican design studio MESTIZ turns wicker into a medium of storytelling, unveiling a new family of handwoven creatures for upcoming Hermès window installations across Mexico. Large flowers sprout from striped planters, butterflies hover beside violet elephants, crabs clutch bright red handbags, and fish appear to swim through fields of tulips. The collection forms an imagined ecosystem where familiar objects abandon their everyday roles and take on playful personalities, like characters in a children’s book, turning wicker into a medium for storytelling.

all images by Mestiz Studio
handcrafted creatures head to hermès storefronts
These expressive creatures are set to occupy Hermès windows across Mexico, bringing MESTIZ’s woven worlds from the workshop into the street. Oversized flowers emerge from striped planters, handbags sprout legs, while butterflies, birds, elephants, and sea creatures share the same imagined landscape. Their exaggerated proportions and saturated colors draw on the language of folklore and childhood fantasy.
The project also demonstrates how far the studio can push the material beyond its familiar forms. The same woven wicker forms flower petals, butterfly wings, elephant trunks, and crab claws, creating a cast of characters from a single material.
The pieces are conceived as part of a single environment, within which each creature appears to interact with the next, encouraging passersby to imagine the scene as a living world.

flowers, butterflies, birds, and creatures come together in an imagined woven landscape

oversized flowers emerge from a striped planter balanced inside a pink wheelbarrow

these expressive creatures are set to occupy Hermès windows across Mexico

a giant flower rises from an open woven trunk

a wheelbarrow carries a cluster of handwoven tulips

a butterfly is woven from shades of pink, red, and yellow wicker

a crab-shaped figure transforms a handbag into a playful character

handwoven fish reinterpret everyday forms through bold color and wicker weaving

a woven bird-shaped umbrella stands on bright yellow legs